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A supervisory government body must retain authority to review enforcement decisions and to approve, modify or reject regulations created by private organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“It was too late to modify it by the time the foundation was poured, and we had to live with it,” he says.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

In its most recent quarterly securities filing, Boeing described the work as a $4 billion fixed price contract "to develop and modify two 747-8 commercial aircraft."

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

And within days, a mathematician at Princeton, Will Sawin, used good old-fashioned human understanding to modify ChatGPT’s construction to get an even better one.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It depends on whether you want the idea of neatness to modify the act of tying the parcel, or the parcel itself, once tied.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

The system even allows a rider to transmit their real-time heart rate so that the e-bike motor modifies the level of assistance as needed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

CAR T-cell therapy takes the patient's own T-cells, modifies them and then reintroduces them back into the blood stream to help fight the cancer.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic modifies the brothers’ original sentence to 50 years to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

After identifying the neurons responsible for the response, they genetically modified those cells so they could be activated with blue light.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

It’s a step up from the previous Starship test, which included deploying 20 Starlink simulators and two modified satellites.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

But the terms of those contracts could be modified given the change in ownership, the filing states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The plan includes buying F35A combat aircraft modified to carry relatively small nuclear bombs to allow Britain to play a part in Nato's European Nuclear Plan.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Standing guard along either side were dozens of forklifts modified for war.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

This approach is significantly more efficient and cost-effective than ex vivo therapy, which requires harvesting a patient’s cells, modifying them in a lab, and re-infusing them.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The U.S. has been constantly modifying the B-52 to extend its life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Saronic built its first prototype in under six months by modifying an $800 Amazon raft with $30,000 worth of cameras, sensors and batteries, Mavrookas said in the podcast interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Among the herbicides are some that are classified as “mutagens,” or agents capable of modifying the genes, the materials of heredity.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson